The Papers: 'End of the road for Boris' after Partygate report

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The Privileges Committee study into whether Mr Johnson misled Parliament implicit rule-breaking successful Downing Street has been published, and it is damning. It accuses the erstwhile premier curate of galore breaches , and recommends that - had helium not discontinue the Commons earlier it had been released - a 90-day suspension. The Times calls it the "end of the roadworthy for Johnson".

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"He lied and lied and lied" reports the one newspaper. Its beforehand carries snippets from Mr Johnson's effect to the report. He said the findings were "deranged" and its work was a "dreadful time for democracy".

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The FT picks retired the enactment from the study which sums up its halfway finding: "He [deliberately] misled the House connected an contented of the top importance… and did truthful repeatedly." While the judgement casts uncertainty connected whether helium tin ever signifier a governmental comeback, the insubstantial reports, it notes that immoderate Tory MPs person publically defended the ex-PM.

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The Telegraph says Mr Johnson's allies person threatened to oust Tory MPs who ballot to endorse the report. The Commons volition ballot connected it connected Monday - but the Telegraph says a sojourn from a "foreign leader… volition apt springiness [Rishi Sunak] a crushed to beryllium excessively engaged to vote".

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The Mail besides leads connected the absorption from Tory MPs who person backed Mr Johnson, and deliberation the committee's behaviour has been "vindictive". Its beforehand leafage besides teases the announcement of the Mail's caller enigma columnist from tomorrow. It says they'll beryllium "required speechmaking successful Westminster". Could it be...

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Metro's beforehand leafage references a header from erstwhile Mr Johnson told the Partygate enquiry helium hadn't told Parliament - successful its words - "proper whoppers". The enquiry has concluded helium did - and present Metro asks whether the "proper whopper is simply a vocation stopper?". It says his hopes of a governmental comeback are present hanging successful the balance.

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The Star covers the Partygate study successful its ain accustomed colourful style. Mr Johnson, described by the insubstantial arsenic an "absolutely lying wazzock", is portrayed arsenic Pinocchio. It reads: "A liar sacked from erstwhile jobs for lying has been recovered blameworthy of lying arsenic PM. But the liar claims the radical called him a liar are liars. The large liar."

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"The astir spiteful stitch-up successful past of politics" is however the Express describes the report's conclusions. It devotes its beforehand leafage to an editorial attacking the findings, accusing its authors of hounding Mr Johnson from Westminster. Along with respective different papers, the Express pictures Glenda Jackson, the histrion and erstwhile Labour MP, who has died astatine 87.

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Unsurprisingly, the Mirror takes a antithetic enactment to the Express. Just 1 connection tells Mr Johnson's story, its beforehand leafage says: "Liar." It was connected the beforehand of the Mirror that immoderate of the archetypal stories astir Partygate archetypal appeared, and present it has devoted its screen to a full-throated onslaught connected the ex-PM.

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While the main representation and header are dedicated to the Johnson report, the beforehand leafage of the Guardian carries a communicative connected the sinking of a vessel carrying hundreds of radical disconnected the seashore of Greece. It's feared that arsenic galore arsenic 750 migrants whitethorn person been aboard the vessel erstwhile it disappeared nether the water.

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The Sun breaks ranks and leads connected a wholly antithetic story, an exclusive astir serial slayer Levi Bellfield. The insubstantial claims that the 55-year-old "monster" is acceptable to beryllium fixed support to wed successful jail. The notorious murderer is serving a beingness condemnation astatine Frankland, a Category A situation successful County Durham.

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